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Unemployment benefits: not until Bush tax cuts pass, Senate GOP says
Senate Republicans stepped up the pressure on tax cuts this week by signing a letter pledging to block all legislation on the floor until Congress resolves how to fund government for the current fiscal year and extend the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, now set to expire on Dec. 31.
(of course Obama extended them. Republicans had no problem doing a really heavy number on even their own base. But that heartless Obama couldn't.)
Then Trump said that if Cruz said another back thing about Trump, Donald would file a lawsuit challenging Cruz's citizenship. If you're gonna do it, do it. Anything else is extortion.
Now the Republicans say they will block anyone, sight unseen, anyone Obama nominates.
Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in 1988. I know, I know, Reagan was white. That's a huge difference. And Democrats didn't get together before Reagan was sworn in and swear to destroy him.
I don't know, once again, it seems an awful lot like extortion. No, it IS extortion. No other way around it. The GOP has become the party of extortion.
Extortion
badger game Extortion, blackmail, intimidation achieved through deception; most specifically, the scheme inwhich a woman entices a man into a compromising situation, and then victimizes him by demanding moneywhen her male accomplice, often pretending to be the enraged husband, arrives on the scene, threateningviolence or scandal. The expression, in common use in the United States since the early 1900s, arose from thecruel sport of badger baiting, in which a live badger was placed in a hole or a barrel so that it could be easilyattacked by dogs. Thus, to badger came to mean ‘to worry, pester, or harass,’ and, more intensively, in thesense above, ‘to persecute or blackmail.’ The woman decoy in the badger game is called the badger-worker.
bleed To extort money from an individual or an organization; to pay an unreasonable amount of money; to paythrough the nose. This slang term has been in use since the 17th century, at which time bleeding was acommon surgical practice. Whether bleeding was natural or surgically induced, loss of blood was significant.The significance of money to most people, and the fact that it can be paid out with or without force, makes thefigurative use of bleed relating to money a logical extension of the literal meaning.
fry the fat out of To obtain money by high-pressure tactics or extortion; to milk, put the squeeze on. Just as thefrying process removes excess fat, so does extortion or high-pressure fund-raising tactics remove the “fat” orexcess wealth from the affluent. This now little-used U.S. slang expression dates from the late 19th century.
Senate Republicans stepped up the pressure on tax cuts this week by signing a letter pledging to block all legislation on the floor until Congress resolves how to fund government for the current fiscal year and extend the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, now set to expire on Dec. 31.
(of course Obama extended them. Republicans had no problem doing a really heavy number on even their own base. But that heartless Obama couldn't.)
Then Trump said that if Cruz said another back thing about Trump, Donald would file a lawsuit challenging Cruz's citizenship. If you're gonna do it, do it. Anything else is extortion.
Now the Republicans say they will block anyone, sight unseen, anyone Obama nominates.
Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in 1988. I know, I know, Reagan was white. That's a huge difference. And Democrats didn't get together before Reagan was sworn in and swear to destroy him.
I don't know, once again, it seems an awful lot like extortion. No, it IS extortion. No other way around it. The GOP has become the party of extortion.
Extortion
badger game Extortion, blackmail, intimidation achieved through deception; most specifically, the scheme inwhich a woman entices a man into a compromising situation, and then victimizes him by demanding moneywhen her male accomplice, often pretending to be the enraged husband, arrives on the scene, threateningviolence or scandal. The expression, in common use in the United States since the early 1900s, arose from thecruel sport of badger baiting, in which a live badger was placed in a hole or a barrel so that it could be easilyattacked by dogs. Thus, to badger came to mean ‘to worry, pester, or harass,’ and, more intensively, in thesense above, ‘to persecute or blackmail.’ The woman decoy in the badger game is called the badger-worker.
bleed To extort money from an individual or an organization; to pay an unreasonable amount of money; to paythrough the nose. This slang term has been in use since the 17th century, at which time bleeding was acommon surgical practice. Whether bleeding was natural or surgically induced, loss of blood was significant.The significance of money to most people, and the fact that it can be paid out with or without force, makes thefigurative use of bleed relating to money a logical extension of the literal meaning.
fry the fat out of To obtain money by high-pressure tactics or extortion; to milk, put the squeeze on. Just as thefrying process removes excess fat, so does extortion or high-pressure fund-raising tactics remove the “fat” orexcess wealth from the affluent. This now little-used U.S. slang expression dates from the late 19th century.
